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6 pages in length. FEMA - The Federal Emergency Management Agency – is an organization instrumental in piecing people's lives back together after a disastrous event. From hurricanes to floods, fires to earthquakes and every other natural disaster in between, FEMA's sole objective is to restore some semblance of normalcy to individuals and communities by providing emergency aid in the form of food, clothing, shelter and other basic necessities. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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disaster in between, FEMAs sole objective is to restore some semblance of normalcy to individuals and communities by providing emergency aid in the form of food, clothing, shelter and other
basic necessities. "After a while in this business...we begin to live for what we do. We have an organization of people dedicated to getting out and helping.
I know the things I do make a difference in somebodys life" (Hume et al, 1994, p. 151). II. HISTORY, PURPOSE, ACHIEVEMENTS, SETBACKS
Originally established in the early nineteenth century with the Congressional Act of 1803 - which "provided assistance to a New Hampshire town following an extensive fire" (FEMA, 2004) -
and becoming part of the US Department of Homeland Security in 2003, FEMAs primary objectives are readily illustrated by way of the six-point disaster life cycle: response, recover, mitigation, risk
management, prevention and preparedness. Of all natural disasters Mother Nature inflicts upon the earth, perhaps none is quite as devastating as the hurricane. Historically speaking, hurricanes have held the
capacity to destroy entire coastlines, wipe out complete communities and generally wreak havoc upon all unfortunate enough to remain in their paths (Byers, 1959). The total destruction left in
the wake of Hurricane Andrew, considered to be historys worst in terms of death and damage, made the East Coast and the world alike gravely aware of just how helpless
man and the environment are to the unrelenting wrath of Mother Nature. FEMA was right there to help reassemble what such fury had undone; however, as instrumental as the
Agency may have been in the overall composition of disaster relief, it came under a great deal of verbal fire for response time with Hurricane Andrew - certainly not the
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